The leading characteristic of this remedy lies in its effects upon the sensorium. "HELIESIN A STUPORORIN A STUPIDSLEEP, UNCONSCIOUSOFALLTHATISGOINGONAROUNDHIM, BUTWHENAROUSEDISFULLYCONSCIOUS." This is PHOSPHORICACID in its intensest degree, as found in typhoid fever, in which it is one of our best remedies. But it is not alone here that the sensorial depression appears. It may be found in a lesser degree, in the results of depressing emotions, like grief at the loss of a friend, lover, property or position, and the effect seems to be even deeper rooted than in those cases which call for IGNATIA. (See also LACHESIS.) The subject seems stupefied with grief. There is not the nervous twitching of IGNATIA, but a settled despair, general weakness or prostration. The hair turns gray, and a weary, worn and haggard, hopeless look obtains. I have succeeded in curing such a case when IGNATIA failed. In such a case the patient sometimes complains of a pain like a CRUSHINGWEIGHTONTHEVERTEX, or, again, of pain in the occiput or nape of the neck, and

with both they appear physically weak, or exhausted, want to lie down, don't want company, or to be noticed or spoken to. We often find this sensorial depression in connection with the effects of onanism or excessive coition. The patient is disturbed by the culpability of his indulgence, grieves over it, is inclined to sink into despair. This is true of both sexes, and the depression is much worse if the patient is GROWING too fast, or is overtaxed mentally or physically. With CALCAREACARB. they grow too fat, with PHOSPHORICACID too fast and tall. We have in PHOSPHORICACID a remedy for the headache of students, especially of those who are growing too fast. It is a sin to keep such young people bowing down to hard study, and while it is true that youth is the time to get an education it is also true that it is the time when too great a strain in that direction may utterly wreck and forever incapacitate a mind which might, with more time and care, have been a blessing to the world.

Now PHOSPHORICACID, properly exhibited, may be of incalculable benefit in such cases. It will sometimes be a choice between PHOSPHORICACID and NATRUMMURIATICUM or CALCAREAPHOS., the other symptoms must decide.

In regard to the use of PHOSPHORICACID in typhoids, there are no other remedies exactly like it in its depressing effect on the sensorium. ARNICA has its apathy or indifference; but the ARNICA depression is more profound, as is also that of BAPTISIA, for they both go to sleep while answering a question, showing how overpowering is the stupor. Then with the former we have petechi2e or ecchymosis, which is not found under PHOSPHORICACID, and under the latter the tendency to decomposition of the fluids as found in the terribly offensive stools and urine.

OPIUM surpasses them all in its stupefying powers, and the face, breathing and general appearance, is not at all like PHOSPHORICACID.

RHUSTOX. and HYOSCYAMUS are very stupid also, but in other respects are very different. The description of these remedies is found under each, as we have written of their use in typhoids. NUXMOSCHATA ought also to be mentioned in this connection.

We must not forget the action of PHOSPHORICACID upon the bowels. It does not exhibit any peculiar characteristic action upon the stomach, but does in the abdominal region, as the following well-verified symptoms show: "METEORISTICDISTENTIONOFTHEABDOMEN; RUMBLINGANDGURGLINGANDNOISEASFROMWATERY, PAINLESSSTOOLS." "DIARRHOEAwhite, ORYELLOW, WATERY, CHRONICORACUTE, WITHOUTPAINORANYMARKEDDEBILITYOREXHAUSTION." Now, it seems very singular that, after so much talk about the general depression or weakness of this remedy, we should be obliged to record that the profuse and sometimes long-continued diarrhoea should NOT debilitate, as a characteristic symptom. Well, there are a good many unaccountable things, in both disease and therapeutics, and this is one of them, but the FACT remains and we act upon it. Let us remember that the profound weakness and depression of PHOSPHORICACID is upon the SENSORIUM and NERVOUS system, and will be there whether diarrhoea is present or not. It is markedly so in typhoids, as I can fully attest from abundant observation. CHINA debilitates by its diarrhoea or loss of fluids generally. PHOSPHORICACID attacks the nervous system primarily, even in onanism, and its results or effects are not so much the loss of semen as a vital fluid, as under CHINA, the nervous system suffering

very much, even though the emissions be neither very frequent nor profuse.

Young boys even suffer from the effects of the ORGASM of onanism before there is much or any semen secreted. This is well to remember in a choice between these two remedies. There is a condition in which I have found this remedy very valuable, especially in men. The leading symptom is a "weak feeling in the chest from talking." You remember STANNUM has this symptom very strongly (also SULPHUR) and may lead us into a wrong prescription if only the one symptom were considered. If the patient is a young man, married or single; if, again, he seems weak in mind, listless, apathetic, reticent; if he is growing fast; all these things would indicate PHOSPHORICACID, and the proper use of it might save him from consumption, for many go into it in this way. If he has cough with expectoration, under PHOSPHORICACID, it will be copious, purulent, offensive; under STANNUM, thick, heavy and of sweetish taste. All this condition of things may, when PHOSPHORICACID is the remedy, find its cause in one or both of two things: Onanism or sexual excess, and too rapid growth. PHOSPHORICACID has two very marked peculiarities in the urine, viz.: very profuse and CLEAR, WATERY, or MILKYURINE.

The first is found with general nervous depression, and if there is headache it is like GELSEMIUMRELIEVED by the flow of urine. The other is from excess of phosphates in the urine, indicating nerve waste. We must distinguish between the profuse urine of IGNATIA and PHOSPHORICACID, for the first is hysterical, the latter not at all so.